The City Secretary recommends that City Council approve an ordinance appointing the presiding and alternate judges for the Early Voting Ballot Boards, central counting stations, and voting precincts for the City of Houston Runoff Election for the office of Council Member, District B to be held on December 12, 2020, and prescribing the number of election clerks for each precinct and their rates of pay.
The Runoff Election for Council Member, District B was delayed because of an election contest filed under Cause No. 2019-82952 (“Election Contest”). On October 19, 2020, the 269th Judicial District Court of Harris County issued a court order that ordered the runoff election in the Election Contest for City of Houston Council Member, District B (“Election”) be held on December 12, 2020. Consistent with that court order, Mayor Sylvester Turner ordered, by proclamation, that the Election be held on December 12, 2020.
As required by Texas Election Code Section 32.005, the proposed ordinance appoints presiding and alternate judges for the Early Voting Ballot Boards, central counting stations, and City election precincts for the Election to be held on December 12, 2020. The proposed ordinance also establishes the maximum number of election clerks for each City election precinct and their rates of pay.
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Pat Jefferson-Daniel
Interim City Secretary